Additional Contact Information
Position: Professor of Journalism &听Political Communication
Email: v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382751
Location:听Main Arts
Personal website: 听
Project Websites: 听
Current Administrative Responsibilities:
Co-Director of .听听
School of History, Law & Social Science Research Committee (grant leadership)
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching and Supervision
Undergraduate modules taught:
- Issues in Media & Journalism
- Journalism and Risk Society
- Media, Politics & Society
- Digital Journalism & Society
- Dissertation in Journalism & Media Studies
- Dissertation in Politics
- MA Dissertation in Sociology
- MSc Dissertation in International Media Management
PhD and MRes students:
I am interested in supervising students in a wide range of areas including contemporary political communication, journalism, disinformation, deception, digital media, intelligence elites, discourse, accountability and power.
Current (1st supervisor)
- Gehad Ibrahim. PhD.听Journalistic Documentary in Post-Truth Dictatorships
- Mashavu Mohamed. PhD. Social media and audiences in Zanzibar
Research Interests
I听research听the interplay between journalism and political and risk communication across 4 areas:
- Disinformation, misinformation, propaganda
- Emotional AI, profiling, surveillance, sousveillance
- Issues of trust, accuracy and credibility in journalism;
- The security state and public accountability.
Keywords
Emotional AI, strategic political communication, journalism, civil society, surveillance, sousveillance, social resistance,听 trust,听 risk communication, propaganda, persuasion, misinformation, disinformation
Research Monographs:
Bakir, V. and A. McStay, 2022. . Palgrave-Macmillan/Springer. [open access]
Bakir, V. 2018.. London: Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2013.听. Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2010.听.听New York: Continuum.
Bakir, V. & D.Barlow, (eds.) 2007.听. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Research awards:
As an interdisciplinary scholar, I have won awards from diverse funding bodies e.g. AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, Innovate UK, Arts Councils. A list of my funded projects are at:
Current grants comprise:
2023-2025: 拢364,000 FEC. Automated Empathy 鈥� Globalising International Standards (AEGIS): Japan and Ethically Aligned Regions. . (PI Andrew McStay, Co-Is Vian Bakir,听Phoebi Li (Univ of Sussex), Ben Bland (Chair of IEEE working group), Alexander Laffer Univ. of Winchester)
2023- .听拢38尘. Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) 鈥� Contribution to Sociology & Science and Technology Pathway (in the 鈥淪ociety and Wellbeing鈥� cluster).听
2020 鈥� 2023: 拢710,000听(comprising 拢497,710 FEC from ESRC, & 29,645,000 Yen from Japan Science & Technology funds). Part of听, our project is on听. 听PI Andrew McStay. Co-I Vian Bakir.听Other Investigators: Lachlan Urquhart (Edinburgh Univ.), Diana Miranda (Northumbria Univ.), Peter Mantello (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji Univ.), Nader Ghotbi (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiroshi Miyashita (Chuo Univ.).听Grant ref. ES/T00696X/1.
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2024
- Published
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry..
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
McStay, A., Andres, F., Bakir, V., Bland, B., Laffer, A., Li, P. & Shimo, S., 28 Aug 2024, IEEE.
Research output: Other contribution 鈥� peer-review - Published
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry..
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 13 Dec 2024, IEEE Standards White Paper, Electronic ISBN:979-8-8557-1563-7.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication 鈥� Article - Published
Bakir, V., Laffer, A., McStay, A., Miranda, D. & Urquhart, L., 7 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 9, 1339834.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Briant, E. L. & Bakir, V., 15 Oct 2024, 1st ed. Routledge. 416 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review
2023
- Published
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, p. 656-669
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - E-pub ahead of print
Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 12 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: AI & Society.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 3 Jul 2023, In: Surveillance and Society. 21, 2
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 17 Jan 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
2022
- Published
Bakir, V., Ghotbi, N., Tung, M., Laffer, A., Mantello, P., McStay, A., Miranda, D., Miyashita, H., Podoletz, L., Tanaka, H. & Urquhart, L., 9 Jun 2022, Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design. Carta, S. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 12 Oct 2022, 7 p. UK Parliament.
Research output: Other contribution
2021
- Published
Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2021, Handbook of Global Media Ethics. Ward, S. J. A. (ed.). Switzerland: Springer, p. 939-959 21 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
2020
- Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 21 Jan 2020, UK Parliament, (APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency).
Research output: Working paper - Published
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2020, Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means. Boler, M. & Davis, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 263-279
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2020, In: Frontiers in Communication. 2020, 67.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2019
- Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2019, UK Parliament.
Research output: Working paper - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2019, UK Parliament, (DCMS).
Research output: Working paper - Published
Bakir, V., Herring, E., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 1 May 2019, In: Critical Sociology. 45, 3, p. 311-328
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2018
- Published
Bakir, V., 25 Mar 2018, 91精品黑料吃瓜.
Research output: Other contribution - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2018, In: Digital Journalism. 6, 2, p. 154-175
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 16 Apr 2018, Routledge. 288 p. (Studies in Intelligence)
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review - Published
Robinson, P., Miller, D., Herring, E. & Bakir, V., 22 Nov 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Meibauer, J. (ed.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 30 Mar 2018, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. Arrigo, B. A. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 943-946 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 22 Mar 2018, 9 p. London : UK Parliament.
Research output: Other contribution
2017
- Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 May 2017, 3 p.
Research output: Other contribution - Published
Bakir, V., Feilzer, M. & McStay, A., 15 Mar 2017, In: Big Data and Society. 4, 1, p. 1-5
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Jun 2017, Political Studies Association.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Other report
2016
- Published
Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, 5 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War : Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 504-506
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 547-549
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 8 Nov 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 243-254
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 16 Sept 2016, In: Intelligence and National Security. p. 1-22 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Miller, D., Robinson, P. & Bakir, V., 8 Nov 2016, Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Robinson, P., Seib, P. & Frolich, R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 308-320
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 21 Dec 2016, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Joseph, P. (ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage, p. 1704-1708
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
2015
- Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 18 Jun 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015, 91精品黑料吃瓜.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book - Published
Bakir, V., 15 May 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 4 Jul 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 8 Jun 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V. (Editor), 1 Apr 2015, Sage.
Research output: Other contribution 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 8 Jul 2015, 91精品黑料吃瓜.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book - Published
Bakir, V., 30 Jan 2015, In: International Journal of Press/politics. 20, 2, p. 131-144
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., Nov 2015, 23 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Other report - Published
Bakir, V., Miller, D. & Robinson, P., 8 Jun 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 22 Jul 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 24 Mar 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 6 Jan 2015, 91精品黑料吃瓜.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book - Published
Bakir, V., 8 Oct 2015, In: Media and Communication. 3, 3, p. 12-25
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2014
- Published
Bakir, V., 4 Apr 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 10 Nov 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 1 Jul 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Other
2013
- Published
Bakir, V., 13 Nov 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2013, In: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. 16, 4, p. 543-551
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., McStay, A. & Feilzer, M. Y., 1 Nov 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 1 Oct 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 14 May 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 12 Apr 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper - Published
Bakir, V., 28 Sept 2013, Ashgate.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review
2012
- Published
Bakir, V., 1 Apr 2012, In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 15, 4, p. 547-548
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Long, P., Wall, T., Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 26 Jul 2012, Pearson Education.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
2011
- Published
Bakir, V., 1 Dec 2011, In: Global Media and Communication. 7, 3, p. 239-243
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2010
- Published
Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, In: Journal of Risk Research. 13, 1, p. 5-18
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review - Published
Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2010, Continuum.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book 鈥� peer-review
2009
- Published
Bakir, V., 1 Jan 2009, In: Popular Communication. 7, 1, p. 7-16
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2008
- Published
Bakir, V., McStay, A., Randell, K. (Editor) & Redmond, S. (Editor), 1 Jan 2008, The War Body on Screen. 2008 ed. Continuum, p. 165-181
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter 鈥� peer-review
Activities
2025
28 Apr 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)23 Apr 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed grant proposal
25 Mar 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)21 Mar 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Invited to participate in Insafe/Inhope Joint Training Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Annual meeting of 200 regulators and Childrens鈥� AI Safety officers from 30 European countries
19 Mar 2025 鈥� 20 Mar 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Participant)12 Mar 2025
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)review of article
7 Mar 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)7 Mar 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)14 Feb 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed proposal in digital sociology
7 Feb 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)3 Feb 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)8 Jan 2025
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2024
20 Dec 2024
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Review of article
14 Oct 2024
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2023
In December 2023, Vian Bakir (Professor in Journalism & Political Communication) participated as an expert in lecture on The Future of AI 鈥� Dream or a Nightmare? - in a 6 minute disinformation and AI section for The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures on The Truth about AI, in conversation with University of Oxford's Prof. Mike Woolridge. This was livecast with a studio audience of teenagers and watched by their parents in and production team in adjoining rooms. It was broadcasted on BBC4 on 28th December 2023(8pm), and is freely available on iplayer for UK audiences. For international audiences, this is freely available on The Royal Institution's Youtube channel (which has 1.56M subscribers): https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch-2023-christmas-lectures (Vian鈥檚 bit is from 20.17 minutes 鈥� 26.30).
With 2024 dubbed the year of elections worldwide, Vian was asked to reflect on what she saw as the key issue with disinformation, AI and politics. She also advised the production team on wider disinformation and deepfake issues presented in the lecture. She then participated in online chats with UK-wide Schools as part of the I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here - follow on expert interactions with schools and children across the country, across Jan 2024 where she answered questions about AI and about being an expert. (The aim is to inspire children to want to become a scientist, and to improve public knowledge of science.)
15 Nov 2023 鈥� 20 Jan 2024
Links:
peer review
14 Nov 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Online meeting to discuss WG 2023-24 agenda and latest relevant research.
1 Nov 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Member)Launched in 2013, Digital Journalism is the premier outlet for advancing international research into digital journalism studies (DJS). The journal aims to maintain its position as a leader of cutting-edge journalism research, providing a critical forum to advance scholarship that intersects with numerous disciplines.
31 Oct 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewer and Rapporteur of multiple proposals
14 Oct 2023 鈥� 1 Dec 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Feedback on, and review of, multiple White Papers and proposals
1 Oct 2023 鈥� 28 Feb 2024
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Reviewed journal paper for Big Data & Society.
Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.
22 Sep 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed for their NWO Talent Programme
18 Sep 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)18 Sep 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.
5 Jun 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Making Sense of Media is Ofcom鈥檚 programme of work to help improve the online skills, knowledge and understanding of UK adults and children.
We do this by sharing our own insights, based on evidence and research, and by galvanising the wider media literacy community to progress and pilot activities and initiatives in support. This work builds on Ofcom鈥檚 substantial body of research into the UK鈥檚 media habits, attitudes and critical understanding.
Working Group meeting attended 24th May 2023
24 May 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Contributor)Across April-Jul, I was an expert for the evaluation of the EU Commission Democracy 01 topic: HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-04: The emotional politics of democracies
31 Mar 2023 鈥� 7 Jul 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop
30 Mar 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)Briefing for Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group 鈥� Discussion on Creativity and the Public - Presentation on using Interactive narrative, design fiction & ContraVision to explore UK public鈥檚 views on emotional AI
29 Mar 2023
Activity: Other (Contributor)New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.
9 Mar 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewed book proposal
27 Jan 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Held by LSE on behalf of DCMS.
26 Jan 2023
Activity: Other (Contributor)attended OFCOM meeting and presented on media literacy research from Emotional AI Lab
25 Jan 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Social Media + Society is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future.
23 Jan 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.
The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
5 Jan 2023
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2022
Reviewer for Leverhulme fellowship
11 Nov 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)SPECIAL REPORT: Anti-independence disinformation fears amid Elon Musk's blue tick plan
8 Nov 2022
Links:
8 Nov 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Advised a reporter from the National.
7 Nov 2022
Activity: Other (Contributor)24 Oct 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)21 Oct 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Discussion about the potential market and viability of an organisation offering truth validated on the blockchain.
19 Oct 2022
Links:
7 Oct 2022 鈥� 20 Jan 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Continued membership of ESRC Peer Review College, as it refreshes its structures
28 Sep 2022 鈥� 28 Sep 2028
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)Invited Keynote - approx 45 participants
23 Sep 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Keynote/plenary speaker)False information proliferates online, despite years of multi-stakeholder efforts to quell it. In September 2022, Vian Bakir (Prof. of Journalism & PolComms, SHiLSS) and Andrew McStay (Prof. of Digital Life, SHiLSS) were invited by the UK Parliament鈥檚 Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee to provide evidence to their Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices. They addressed one of the Inquiry鈥檚 questions: namely: Is the provision of authoritative information responsive enough to meet the challenge of misinformation that is spread on social media? Now published, one of their conclusions is that rather than having to make difficult content moderation decisions about what is true and false on the fly and at scale, it may be better to ensure that digital platforms鈥� algorithms optimise emotions for social good rather than just for the platform and its advertisers鈥� profit. What this social good optimisation would look like is worthy of further study, but they posit that this would likely involve dialling down the platform鈥檚 emotional contagion, and engagement, of users.
14 Sep 2022 鈥� 14 Oct 2022
Links:
This Working Group has two primary aims.
1) to inform Ofcom's media literacy and wider online safety research activity; and
2) to improve the sector-wide research evidence base in these areas.
The Working Group will share and evaluate methodologies and metrics from a wide range of relevant research, and will report regularly to the MSOM Advisory Panel.
1 Sep 2022 鈥� 1 Sep 2023
Activity: Other (Member)Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE: Trust in User-generated Evidence: Analysing the Impact of Deepfakes on Accountability Processes for Human Rights Violations. (PI Yvonne McDermott, Swansea Univ.)
1 Aug 2022 鈥� 1 Aug 2027
Links:
reviewed paper
1 Aug 2022 鈥� 11 Aug 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)book proposal review
22 May 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)5 grants reviewed, and consensus reports written
14 May 2022 鈥� 20 Jul 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)6 May 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Blog post - interview with project team for EU-funded citizen science and data project, CSI-COP (that investigates GDPR compliance to better understand how far we are being tracked-by-default as we use the Internet visiting websites and apps on our mobile devices).
6 May 2022
Links:
Participated in the ESRC鈥檚 National Capability in Behavioural Research consultation. It informs the ESRC鈥檚 models for funding social science research into behavioural research, an area of increasing interest to government and diverse disciplines
28 Apr 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)In collaboration with North Wales Police (NWP), this project will identify and explore with police, civic and public stakeholders the benefits, challenges and ethical concerns raised through the police use of new computational technologies in policing, notably those involving claims to detect and predict criminality through risk-modelling and those based on Intelligent Facial Recognition.
Funding awarded through the 91精品黑料吃瓜 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = 拢44,239
1 Apr 2022 鈥� 31 Mar 2023
Activity: Other (Contributor)Across March, Prof Vian Bakir (School of History, Law & Social Science) participated in a series of high-level workshops by US-based Social Science Research Council and the UK鈥檚 Economic and Social Research Council, who are working together to better understand and further explore theoretical, analytical, methodological, and empirical challenges surrounding trust in democratic institutions. These organisations brought together experts from both sides of the Atlantic to share ideas, knowledge and experience. This will inform a joint call from the US and UK research councils that will fund a series of international and interdisciplinary projects that can better inform policy, improve public trust, and have positive societal impact. Bakir contributed ideas on Understanding Trust from her edited book with David Barlow, Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media (2007). She contributed ideas on Manipulating Trust from her forthcoming book with Andrew McStay, Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehood (in press 2022).
24 Mar 2022 鈥� 31 Mar 2022
Activity: Other (Contributor)14 Mar 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)23 Feb 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Completed invited survey by research institute Visionary Analytics in partnership with EFIS, DCC, and DANS is conducting a study on the European research data landscape commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD).
8 Feb 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Arising from a recent conference paper on intelligence oversight, I provided advice and discussed own published work with APPG on how to improve intelligence accountability on the issue of extraordinary rendition, to ensure that such activities could never happen again in the UK.
1 Feb 2022
Activity: Other (Contributor)Panel discussant: 鈥楶ublic Accountability of Intelligence Agencies and the Sousveillance Generation鈥�. GUARDINT EU Project Conference. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations. Kings College, University of London.
26 Jan 2022 鈥� 27 Jan 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2021
Reviewed book proposal
3 Dec 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewer
28 Nov 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Interviewed for this New York-based Jewish newspaper
23 Nov 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Interviewee)6 Nov 2021
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Interview for EU Horizon 2020 project newsletter on Citizen Science (Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance:)
1 Oct 2021
Links:
28 Sep 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)16 Sep 2021 鈥� 1 Jan 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)23 Aug 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)2 Aug 2021 鈥� 10 Oct 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)ROSNER, G. & BAKIR, V. (2021). GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE. WORKING PAPER, JULY. FUNDED BY EPSRC HUMAN-DATA INTERACTION NETWORK
1 Aug 2021
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2 Jul 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)25 Jun 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)25 Jun 2021 鈥� 19 Dec 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)- Took part in workshop to advise AHRC on what would constitute a humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI (workshop organised by Ada Lovelace Institute and the Institute for Ethics in AI).
28 May 2021
Activity: Other (Participant)14 May 2021
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Reviewed for collaborative AHRC-DFG proposal
3 May 2021
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)Emotional AI & Civic Discourse: interim insights and next steps. Emotional AI Lab, University of Bangor and Ritsumeikan APU, April 2021.
28 Apr 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Book launch and panel discussion
23 Apr 2021 鈥� 28 Apr 2021
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Panel reviewer (19 grants)
20 Apr 2021 鈥� 4 May 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)29 Mar 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)29 Mar 2021 鈫�
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)15 Mar 2021 鈥� 15 Apr 2021
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)22 Feb 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)1 Feb 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)Review of journal paper
25 Jan 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)40 page Interim Report on progress on Innovate UK research project and insights for Cufflink to feed into design of their app. (In kind consultancy)
21 Jan 2021
Activity: Consultancy (Consultant)Reviewer for large grants - MAESTRO-12, Panel: HS6 (Human nature and human society)
6 Jan 2021
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)2 Jan 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)1 Jan 2021 鈥� 1 Jan 2023
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)
2020
reviewer
22 Dec 2020
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)peer reviewer
1 Nov 2020 鈥� 6 Jan 2021
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)XXXII Meeting of Philosophy & Theory of Human Sciences, Philosophy Department, Unesp, Brazil
26 Oct 2020
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Invited written submission (Aug 2020) to the Victoria Parliament (Australia) Electoral Matters Committee鈥檚 Inquiry into the Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration. Informed the Inquiry's Final Report's findings and recommendations (Sep 2021).
24 Aug 2020 鈥� 20 Sep 2021
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6 Aug 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Blog piece
4 Aug 2020
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1 Aug 2020 鈥� 31 Aug 2020
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Reviewer)keynote
9 Jul 2020 鈥� 10 Jul 2020
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Reviewer ESRC-COVID-19
1 Jul 2020 鈥� 31 Jul 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Evidence and recommendations published in the report, Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust, published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
To prevent further harm, our evidence recommends greater transparency of digital campaigns, better media literacy for voters, and self-reflection by political campaigners on things like the informativeness and civility of their own campaign.
Building on such evidence, the House of Lords鈥� report makes an urgent case for reform of electoral law as well as our overwhelming need to become a digitally literate society.
29 Jun 2020
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25 Jun 2020 鈫�
Activity: Other (Contributor)16 Jun 2020
Activity: Other (Reviewer)10 Jun 2020 鈥� 10 Aug 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)3 Jun 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Panel reviewer for EPSRC Research Centre Competition (拢7million) - Protecting Ciizens Online
1 Jun 2020 鈥� 22 Jun 2020
Activity: Other (Reviewer)1 May 2020 鈥� 30 Apr 2023
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30 Apr 2020 鈥� 1 May 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Co-organised a two-hour workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic, run with Deakin University, Australia and 91精品黑料吃瓜, UK. Presented a paper on Managing public emotions & behaviour in a risk issue.
28 Apr 2020
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Briefing Paper for All Party Parliamentary Group on Electoral Campaigning Transparency.
20 Apr 2020
Activity: Other (Contributor)Briefing Paper for All Party Parliamentary Group on Electoral Campaigning Transparency.
10 Apr 2020
Activity: Other (Contributor)6 Apr 2020 鈥� 16 Apr 2020
Activity: Other (Reviewer)reviewed 10 applications
6 Apr 2020 鈥� 15 Apr 2020
Activity: Other (Reviewer)Reviewed 6 applications for Univ. of Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies COFUND fellowships for junior & senior researchers in 2020/2021 funded by the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie actions.
29 Mar 2020 鈥� 20 Apr 2020
Activity: Other (Reviewer)reviewed article
17 Feb 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewed paper
17 Feb 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)reviewed journal article
16 Feb 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewed book proposal
14 Feb 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)15 Jan 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)5 Jan 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)3 Jan 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2019
Policy & Internet
17 Dec 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Fellowship talk to Law Schools of KU Leuven & University of Edinburgh KU Leuven University
17 Dec 2019 鈥� 18 Dec 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)Reviewed grant proposals
6 Dec 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Contributor)interviewed on Swedish radio about fake news
25 Nov 2019
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Reviewed grant for UK-China connections
11 Nov 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Peer reviewed large grants
5 Nov 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Funded by Economic & Social Research Council - Arts & Humanities Research Council - UK-Japan Social Sciences & Humanities Connections grant
1 Nov 2019
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reviewed article
20 Oct 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)reviewed grant
29 Sep 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Reviewed large inter-disciplinary grant
12 Sep 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Multi-Stakeholder (government, NGO, company, regulator), multi-disciplinary (media, journalism, law, criminology, Ai ethics, robotics, big data) workshop to discuss UK-Japan elements of emotional AI
9 Sep 2019
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Based on our synthesis of research from academia, investigative journalism and regulatory and political inquiries, we find:
- Extensive use of deception and emotion in campaigning for the 2016 鈥楤rexit鈥� referendum.
- Techniques for targeting citizens with emotive and deceptive information have intensified in terms of granularity of targeting; and remain hidden from the view of the wider community or nation.
- False messages prompt reactions of fear, disgust and surprise, and have a propensity towards recirculation online.
To address this, we recommend:
- That there be incentives for digital political campaigners to act ethically, and for their behaviour to be critically and regularly reflected upon by society.
- Specifically, we recommend the institution of publicly available self-evaluations by all political campaign groups post-elections to: Summarise which audiences were targeted, and with what success; Reflect upon which aspects of the campaign most succeeded in mobilising voters (e.g. specific adverts, messages, themes, memes); Reflect upon whether the campaign gave voters enough information with which to make an informed choice on which to base their electoral decision (i.e. was information true, complete, undistorted and relevant?); Reflect upon to what extent the campaign was civil.
- We further recommend that this self-reporting be incentivised via: An independent panel (of diverse stakeholders, including fact-checkers, academics, and campaigners from opposing sides) to verify, and critically comment upon, the self-evaluations; A kite-mark system to brand the veracity and civility of the campaigning; Ensuring that this is covered by the media, post-election, and that the analysis is available online in a public archive.
2 Aug 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)23 Jul 2019 鈥� 1 Oct 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)23 Jul 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Public talk in Beppu, Japan
16 Jul 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)8 Jul 2019 鈥� 12 Jul 2019
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Reviewer and panel member for 23 large grants on risk and technology
1 Jul 2019 鈥� 1 Oct 2019
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)External Examiner for MA Digital Media & Society
1 Jun 2019 鈥� 1 Jun 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Examiner)This 50-page guide is designed to help journalists in the UK and Ireland protect their sources and data in the current era of surveillance and hacking of data. Such protection is vital in order to enable whistle-blowing and investigative reporting, but is increasingly under threat given the UK鈥檚 Investigatory Powers Act [2016] and surveillance by the police. Our full guide is hosted on the NUJ鈥檚 website (members only).
1 Jun 2019
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The UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched the Reality TV inquiry in May 2019 following events leading up to the decision to axe The Jeremy Kyle Show. It is considering the duty of care offered by broadcasters and programme makers to participants of reality TV shows.听
The Network for Media & Persuasive Communication submitted written evidence focusing on DCMS' question:听What is the future for reality TV of this kind? How does it听accord with our understanding of, and evolving attitudes to, mental health?
The submission听offers听a cautionary note on a likely future of听reality听media -听where听the media industry听makes use of data听about emotions听to听add new layers of engagement听through听鈥渆motional AI鈥�.听This听emotional AI听entails听affective computing and AI techniques听that听read and react to emotions through text, voice, computer vision and biometric sensing.听While听usage of听emotional AI听has scope to enhance experience of media,听there is scope听for abuse听when competing for audience attention, engagement听and advertising revenue.
The submission recommends that:
- Regulators and policymakers are suitably aware of media and technological trends described in this document: namely,听the potential dangers of a media environment in which emotion is quantified and utilised by the media industry.
-听Media companies and home technology providers understand that regulators and policymakers are aware of these developments and are willing听to regulate if听there is听misuse,or听if听individual, collective or technological vulnerabilities (such as lack of awareness of 鈥渃onsent鈥� to domestic profiling)听are exploited.
-听There听is听further engagement with academics and other specialists on these questions.
1 Jun 2019 鈥� 1 Sep 2019
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10 May 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)29 Apr 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)29 Mar 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)BBC news article. Bakir cited within.
25 Mar 2019
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Journalism
8 Mar 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)The study ( Disinformation and propaganda 鈥� impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States) was commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs. It assesses the impact of disinformation and strategic political propaganda disseminated through social media sites.
The report references McStay and Bakir's work several times, and discusses it in the text, citing the definition of fake news proposed by McStay and Bakir in 2018.
28 Feb 2019
Activity: Other (Contributor)25 Feb 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed article on disinformation and journalism
7 Feb 2019 鈫�
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
2018
Interviewed for long article in Slovenian naitonal newspaper, Vecer, following my talk at Grounded Festival, Slovenia.
Vian Bakir, a British professor of political communication and journalism, and a researcher on the dangers of political manipulation through social networks and the media, on the supervision in the name of national security, and on whether all this can strengthen democracy.
22 Dec 2018
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19 Dec 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)11 Dec 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)9 Dec 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Invited to a conference on Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done? in Portcullis House, Lodnon. The conference programme has been devised in collaboration with the Cabinet Office, Electoral Commission, and Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office, and the conference is hosted by the DCMS Select Committee.
29 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Participant)28 Nov 2018
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Invited talk on digital surveillance, public accountability of intelligence agencies; and follow-on discussion and media interviews on fake news and disinformation.
21 Nov 2018 鈥� 23 Nov 2018
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16 Nov 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Grant reviewer.
16 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)publication
1 Nov 2018
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25 Oct 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Evaluating numerous large grants on risk. Panel member.
25 Oct 2018 鈥� 14 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)5 Oct 2018 鈥� 2 Nov 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)18 Sep 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)18 Sep 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)14 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Reviewed book proposal
14 Sep 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships July 2018
13 Sep 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Bakir comments on Fake News Inquiry interim report on disinformation
5 Sep 2018
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Reviewed for International Journal of Communication
2 Sep 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)30 Aug 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Reviewed book proposal on journalism
13 Aug 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed grant for 拢800k
9 Aug 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Reviewed grant for 拢2.1m
9 Aug 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Frontiers in Communication publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in areas including Political, Health, and Science and Environmental Communication. Led by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts, this multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, policy makers and the public worldwide.
1 Aug 2018 鈫�
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Cited in DCMS. 2018. Disinformation and 鈥榝ake news鈥�: Interim Report. 24 July. Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, House of Commons 363.
30 Jul 2018
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Reviewed article on human enhancement
26 Jul 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewed article on fake news
26 Jul 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)I was invited to attend this event - which was attended by approx. 45 people, including Amber Rudd MP, mainstream journalists, law lords, regulators and NGOs. I advanced its agenda and discussion with a critical question on what Theresa May, the cabinet and UK intelligence agencies knew during the Brexit campaign about dark money and dark data being used by the Leave campaign. The event concluded that our democracy was under grave attack by dark money, dark data and deception, and that urgent reform was needed of our Electoral Law.
17 Jul 2018
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation (Participant)Invited presentation to CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy) 2-day workshop on New Lines of Insight: Big Data and the Analytically Driven Organization. Stirling, Scotland, UK
4 Jun 2018
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)3 May 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed book proposal for Routledge on fake news
1 May 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)20 Apr 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed journal article
6 Apr 2018
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Invited presentation to British Academy conference
8 Mar 2018 鈥� 9 Mar 2018
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1 Mar 2018
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Invited to co-produce a white paper to shape the European Commission鈥檚 (EC) research agenda on the Internet's Impact on Echo Chambers, Fake News and Populism. This will assist the EC to define a future work programme of research within the H2020 framework and FP9. hTrough regular consultation across 2018, this generated a report on sociotechnical implications of the Internet related to the impact of closed communities and misinformation and makes recommendations to address specific challenges.
Edited by Steve Taylor, Brian Pickering, Paul Grace, Michael Boniface -University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, UK
1 Feb 2018 鈥� 25 Oct 2018
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By invitation, I presented oral evidence to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry on user targeting: For 1.5 hours, I answered questions on user targeting, misinformation and journalism (alongside 2 other expert academics).
The session is televised and available online.
23 Jan 2018
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2017
reviewed journal article
1 Nov 2017 鈥� 15 Nov 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed book proposal for Routledge - dataveillance
1 Oct 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed book proposal for Routledge (Sociology): War on Terror
1 Oct 2017
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)Reviewed article for Journalism - Fake news
1 Sep 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed book proposal for Routledge on Immigration discourse
1 Sep 2017
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)Reviewed journal article for Digital Journalism
1 Jun 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed article for Media & Communication on Digital Images
1 Jun 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)Reviewed book proposal for Routledge - Journalism
1 Jun 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Presented on DATA-PSST findings at Security Research Group, Aberystwyth University
1 May 2017
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)For ESRC: Assessed grant application
1 May 2017
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)Invited Speaker: House of Commons, London. Fake News & Digital Advertising. Branded Content Network (AHRC-funded). (Public Talk 鈥� approx. 30 people)
We presented on the fake news phenomenon as part of an invited panel.
It received media coverage from trade press.
25 Apr 2017
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3 x 3000 words reports - Bakir and McStay (MPC), and Bakir et al
1 report for MECCSA
1 blog for PSA Political Insight
2 talks to COmmsCymru
1 Apr 2017 鈥� 29 Nov 2017
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Editorial for Veillance & Transparancy
17 Mar 2017
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Reviewed paper on soft power for International Journal of Press/Politics
1 Mar 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Gillian Jein hosted the round table discussion which launched the interactive, generative exhibition, Veillance. The roundtable included project team members. Artist Ronan Devlin, Academics Prof. Vian Bakir and Prof. Andy McStay, Technician Carwyn Edwards.
24 Feb 2017
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Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Generative Exhibition - White Box, Pontio
24 Feb 2017 鈥� 12 Mar 2017
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Reviewed grant proposal for ESRC
7 Jan 2017
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation (Contributor)
2016
reviewed article on Mass Surveillance:
17 Dec 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)reviewed article on Risk Amplification
17 Dec 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Interviewed for, and quoted in, al-Jazeera article on Snooping, data leaks and the threat to online privacy
1 Dec 2016
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Revieed paper on journalism and dataveillance post-Snowden
14 Nov 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Reviewed paper
4 Nov 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)23 Oct 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Provided reference to British Academy on propaganda in Iraq
12 Oct 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Reviewer)I wrote a piece for Open Democracy about the problems with secret research that informs policy, drawing parallels between ERG22+ and the Bush era detention and interrogation programme. I also signed the open letter to the Guardian calling for the secret research base behind ERG22+ to be made public.
4 Oct 2016
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1 Aug 2016
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)1 Aug 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)8 Jun 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Examiner)Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 13 participants: academics and 3 end users (artist/designer, journalist, NGO)
Vian Bakir: Grant PI and lead organiser of seminar
20 May 2016
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1 May 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 30 participants, some international (Japan, Germany, Estonia, Spain): 25 academics and 5 end users (artist, company, think tank, NGO, Information Commissioners Office)
Vian Bakir: Grant PI and conference lead organiser
31 Mar 2016
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to Dept. of Computing and Engineering
24 Mar 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Member)1 Mar 2016
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)1 Mar 2016
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)1 Mar 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)1 Jan 2016 鈥� 1 Jan 2017
Activity: Editorial activity (Guest editor)
2015
1 Dec 2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)1 Nov 2015
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Member)1 Nov 2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)1 Nov 2015
Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)Presented as part of a panel on Journalism post-Snowden to European Broadcast Union, Berlin. This 1 hour panel was televised, and has a potential audience of 1.2 bn. I wrote an accompanying blog piece on 3 things European heads of broadcasting need to know about journalism post-Snowden, which ahs received many views.
26 Oct 2015 鈥� 27 Oct 2015
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DATA-PSST seminar 4 - Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices. Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing TransparencyArrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 33 participants, some international (Spain, the Netherlands): 25 academics and 8 end users (artists, NGOs, Information Commissioners Office)
Grant PI and lead organiser of conference
10 Sep 2015
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1 Sep 2015
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)1 Sep 2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)Arising from my work in intelligence agencies, the press, and politics, I act as external consultant for CAGE 鈥� a UK advocacy group for the rights of Bush-era torture-intelligence detainees in the War on Terror. To date this has involved consultation on: a) public and political engagement (eg formulating petitions, signing open letters); b) participating in focus group to provide knowledge of intelligence agencies鈥� media and PR strategies to counter negative press coverage and pressure from the security state (eg regarding CAGE鈥檚 public comments on 鈥楯ihadi John鈥� having been turned violent by MI5). I am the un-named academic in the Emwazi External Review document (2015) c) advising on reports and research that informs critique of public policy regarding Prevent and Channel ( am named as a reviewer in The Science of Pre-Crime (2016).) Cage contacted me to explain that they needed independent academic evaluation of a report they had written on the secret research base underpinning Channel鈥檚 ERG22+ (extremist risk guidelines). I evaluated their report, and associated academic articles on which it was based, and wrote a piece for Open Democracy about the problems with secret research that informs policy, drawing parallels with the Bush era detention and interrogation programme. I also signed the open letter to the Guardian calling for the secret research base to be made public.
1 Aug 2015 鈥� 1 Dec 2016
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Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust, this one-day conference attracted 44 participants: 35 academics, 8 end users (journalism, documentary-making, NGOs, Information Commissioners Office, ethical hacking)
Vian Bakir: PI of grant and lead conference organiser
8 Jul 2015
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1 Jun 2015 鈥� 1 Jun 2020
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation (Member)By invitation, I joined the newly-established Information Rights research network coordinated by The Policy Delivery department at the UK鈥檚 Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office (ICO). The network is privy to consultations, research tenders and general advice-seeking from the ICO, and is also a forum for the exchange of ideas and the posting of relevant content. So far, I have contributed to formulating this network鈥檚 remit and scope, and (with Andrew MMcStay) interviewed a number of ICO staff concerning data issues around wearable media.
1 Jun 2015 鈥� 1 Jan 2020
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Member)Special Issue on Intelligence Agencies & Agenda-Building
1 Apr 2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Guest editor)1 Apr 2015 鈥� 1 Jan 2025
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Member)Funded by ESRC Seminar Series (2014-16) DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust. This full-day seminar attracted 40 participants (several international eg Iceland, Belgium): 35 academics, 5 end users (politician, NGO, defence consultant, Information Commissioners Office, privacy-oriented technology company).
Vian Bakir: PI of grant and lead organiser of conference
24 Mar 2015
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1 Mar 2015
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Examiner)With Andrew McStay, at Caernarfon Arts Gallery we presented CitizenFour, Laura Poitras鈥� (2014) documentary on national security whistle-blower Edward Snowden. This involved a pre-screening talk on the national security whistle-blower and media representations, followed by Q&A afterwards.
10 Jan 2015
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Interviewee)Funded by ESRC Seminar Series grant (2014-16): DATA-PSST! Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance and Trust. This first full-day conference had 30 participants (several international eg Canada, USA): 27 academics (from a wide range of disciplines), 3 end users (digital designer, US satellite company, NGO).
Vian BakirPI and lead organiser of the day
6 Jan 2015
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2014
Analysis fo experts' response to Senate Intelligence Committe Report on CIA's Detention & Interrogation programme. Amalysis of strategic Political Communicaiton therein.
17 Dec 2014
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multiple conference abstracts
1 Dec 2014
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)91精品黑料吃瓜's network for Media & Persuasive Communication (MPC) hosted the Political Studies Association Media and Politics GroupAnnual Conference themed on Media, Persuasion and Human Rights.
Our 2-day conference was attended by 44 delegates from across academia internationally (Australasia, Europe) and the UK, encompassing diverse disciplines (Media, Communications, Politics, Sociology, Law, Business, Linguistics), and from all career stages. As well as explorations of human rights from the perspectives of security, privacy, freedom of speech, gender, race, class, labour and religion, we saw papers on propaganda, persuasion and spin across all media forms 鈥� from music to new media, and across a range of institutional sites beyond media, such as governments, legislatures and the judiciary. We were sponsored by BBC Montoring and Peter Lang. The James Thomas Memorial prizes (拢100 cheque) for the best postgraduate paper was awarded to Mr Khin-Wee Chen (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) for his paper on Malaysian Kangkung Politics: harvesting Internet visual memes for rhetorical acts. Two travel bursaries (拢100 each) were awarded to delegates for the best abstract from a postgraduate student: Ruth Garland (LSE) for Beyond the Narrative of Political Spin: an empirical analysis of the workings and purposes of UK government media relations; and Mark Shaw (Durham University) for Discourses on European integration and Institutions in the UK press: political entrepreneurialism at work. The conference organising team were: Dr Vian Bakir (SCSM), Dr Martina Feilzer (Social Sciences), Dyfrig Jones (SCSM), Dr. Yvonne McDermott (Law), Dr. Andrew McStay (SCSM) and Dr Kate Taylor Jones (SCSM).
10 Nov 2014 鈥� 11 Nov 2014
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Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)1 Nov 2014
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee (Examiner)peer reviewed multiple articles
1 Jun 2014 鈥� 1 Feb 2015
Activity: Editorial activity (Peer reviewer)
2013
1 Jan 2013 鈥� 1 Jan 2017
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)1 Jan 2013 鈥� 1 Jan 2017
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)
Projects
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01/07/2020 鈥� 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/12/2014 鈥� 19/12/2017 (Finished)
Description
Our 2-year Seminar Series will explore, from multi-disciplinary/end user perspectives, how different aspects of transparency (whether voluntarily entered into, or state/commercially/peer-imposed) affect questions of privacy, security, sur/sous/veillance and trust. These areas have been chosen, as transparency violates privacy; is argued as necessary for security; indiscriminately mass surveills; and both demands and compromises trust.
To explore these topics, we will draw on perspectives from Journalism, Media, Sociology, Criminology, Law, Politics, International Relations, Intelligence, Business, History, Computer Science and Philosophy, and on end users from media, journalism, law, governing bodies, regulators, NGOs, business and security.
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